Crew Rotation in the Navy: The Long-Term Effect on Forward Presence

Abstract

Crew rotation -- the practice of using more than one crew to operate a single ship -- has attracted growing attention in the Navy in recent years. Under conventional crewing concepts, one crew is assigned to each naval vessel and operates it on all deployments and training cruises. (Individual personnel join or leave the crew as part of their normal career rotations.) On a small number of ships, however, the Navy employs rotation systems in which two or more crews take turns manning a particular ship. The purpose of crew rotation is to increase the amount of time that a ship spends operating overseas providing "forward presence" -- compared with conventional single crewing. This report describes the different approaches to crew rotation that the Navy uses today, has experimented with, or plans to employ. It also analyzes the forward-presence and force-structure implications of using or not using crew rotation on the Navy's surface combat ships.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA473646

Entities

People

  • Eric J. Labs

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Ships
  • Arleigh Burke Class
  • Attack Submarines
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Boats
  • Department Of Defense
  • Destroyers
  • Fleet Ballistic Missiles
  • Guided Missiles
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • National Security
  • Naval Vessels
  • Navy
  • Shipbuilding
  • Uss Zumwalt
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design